Foreign experts expect Serbia's parallel structures in Kosovo to be dissolved this year

The director of the Belgrade-based Forum for Interethnic Relations Dusan Janjic unveiled this.

Janjak spoke of Klan Kosova about the Kosovo government's request that has been facing Serbian authorities since before talking about the possibility of establishing association, Belgrade must shut down all its parallel structures that finance them in Kosovo.

“Aleksandar Vuciqi (President of Serbia) does not agree that this topic will be opened because it is a powerful instrument for nearly 500m euros to be separated each year and admitted into Kosovo, and by these means they connect people to themselves. This is not only the people of the Serb community, but all those with direct and indirect interest from these”.

A meeting among expert groups in the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue is expected to be held at the end of August in Brussels.

In fact, the Kosovo government has not indicated whether they have a list ready with all of Serbia's institutions considered parallel.

For their extinction according to German Balkan expert Bodo Weber, there must be great pressure from the world's most powerful states at the address of Serbia's president.

This year, Angela Merkel, the dominant figure in the enlargement dialogue, leaves politics, the new Chancellor is expected by the end of the year. I believe the new government of Germany will work harder to revive the dialogue. I'm sure Berlin in co-operation with Washington and maybe even London can put enough pressure on Serbia to do so, so that eventually it can dismantle the state structures it has in Kosovo” said Weber.